Scholastic Bowl Quiz
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1. The opening stansa of what poem by William Wordsworth has lines ending with theses words? cloud, hills, crowd, daffodils, trees, breeze
2. Father Junipero Sera was a member of what religious mendicant order?
3. What are three consecutive integers such that the product of the second and third exceeds the square of the first by 8.
4. What highly vascular organ behind the stomach disintegrates old blood cells and produces lymphocytes?
5. What words complete this palindrome? Live on evasion? No, I save....
6. What part of the eye bends light rays?
7. What alloy was used 4000 years ago in art objects and weapons?
8. If autopsies were performed on all the people in Davy Jones' locker, what would be the most common cause of death?
9. A person will feel dizzy when the fluid inside what organ is disturbed?
10. Which river is closest to these ancient cities? Bardari, Luxor, Thebes, Hermapolis, Aphroditropolis, Heliopolis, Memphis
11. With what city in America are these names associated? Stan Laurel, Fred Astaire, Greta Garbo, Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Boris Karloff
12. The U.S. went to war with what country when it attempted to liberate Cuba in 1898?
13. In early 2000, the population of what country was 1,267 million?
14. Who wrote this? All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
15. Much of Portugal's early history was shared with what other neighboring country on the Iberian Peninsula?
16. The spasmodic contraction of which large, powerful, dome-shaped muscle at the base of the chest cavity causes a hiccup?
17. Name the village where Napoleon suffered a decisive defeat in 1815?
18. In which Massachusetts town near Lexington did colonists fire "the shot heard round the world" in 1775?
19. Which U.S. President is known for saying, "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?
20. To which class of rock does obsidian belong to?
21. Name the first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court?
22. What is the reciprocal of the reciprocal of 1?
23. Name the 2nd planet from the sun?
24. Give the nationality of Alfred Nobel, the inventer of dynamite and the founder of the Nobel Prizes?
25. Who became the first president of the Republic of Texas on October 22, 1863?
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